Mavelous, the browser-based MAVLink GCS, is coming on strong

John Wiseman and Pat Hickey of the Mavelous team have been making great strides with this HTML-based MAVLink GCS, which can run in any browser. You can see a very cool live demo of it here, and follow the project here. 3DR is supporting the project, so look for products from us soon that will allow you to use any device, including phones and tablets, as your GCS for ArduCopter/Plane in the field.

Installing a webserver with pyton is not easier than installing the GCS :)

I guess the obvious next step would be to put it on microboard on the drone and control the drone directly from the browser (maybe connecting the board directly to the APM and using the wireless connection to tunnel HTTP packets on it)

Simone, I like that idea, but you need something that can do real wifi (or gsm etc.) & http if you want to be able to use an iPad or iPhone.

Dennis: Besides showing the data for one drone to multiple browsers (which I would have liked to have done at the Drone Games, if there had been any vehicles there that spoke mavlink), another "multiplayer" feature I'd like to add would be showing info for multiple drones in one browser. Then add an internet server where people can publish their data in realtime, and you can point mavelous at it and see all the arducopters etc. that are flying at any given time.